When seeing my ladies portraits, one thinks of engraving, lithography or even to the historical daguerreotypes, although they have nothing in common from a technological point of view, but the simple plastic resemblance.
I opted for and explored this way of visual expression applied to the female body and face, in contrast to the questionable beautifying tendency, and the modern aproach to render in as much detail as possible the shapes and textures of the body, the clothing, or the adjacent objects.
Going in the opposite direction, I gave my images (and implicitly my models) a vibrant dose of mystery. I find this a provocative type of visual expression, through which I essentialize the composition of my photos.
My ladies portraits are stimulating suggestions, enticing the viewers to freely create their own perception and guess their sublte nature.
The photos are taken on b&w film, enlarged in analog laboratory and then photochemically processed, manually, without any digital intervention. The chromatic effects are obtained through controlled photochemical techniques.
I believe that "archaic" silver photography provides vast resources for visual expression. For over 40 years, I have been searching for different ways to have my mind and feelings question this mico-universe of silver beads, and get the most unexpected answers.
